Lather : v. input « Lather "Is to produce mousse.
To be worried, to worry.
In the theater, to be successful is to be very successful.
Lather: show off (see below).
To make foam: to brag, to exaggerate in value (a person, a thing).
Lather someone up: make him lose patience, irritate him.
Lather your snout: damage your nose.
Masturbate someone.
Lather the creator: masturbate.
- The expression "To lather": To show off in an undeserved or exaggerated way.
Supposing you know about soap and use it, you know that this stuff produces foam, something made up of a large amount of tight bubbles and which can get very large in volume when it ultimately doesn't contain anything.
Well, a lather person can be compared to soap suds: they want to appear important, but very often they are nothing or very little.
This expression, in its current meaning, dates from the beginning of the XNUMXth century. It comes from the locution lather which, a little before, meant "to give an exaggerated value to something".